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R&R & Cimelia Expand E-Waste Services in EU

R&R Group Services Ltd has signed a mutually exclusive contract with Singapore based Cimelia Resource Recovery Pte Ltd, a 100% owned subsidiary of Enviro-Hub Holdings Ltd, to supply crushed IT and Electronic waste from the R&R e-Waste processing facility in Biggleswade, UK.

R&R's core business is the global procurement and sourcing, refurbishment, kitting and repair of IT Multivendor spares for the IT Maintenance Market. Faced with the challenge to maximise value and minimise costs for customers when processing IT excess and surplus for recycling, the partnership between R&R and Cimelia creates a competitive advantage over other UK companies.

At its' new Biggleswade Processing & Distribution Centre, R&R will use a Cimelia's developed and supplied crusher capable of processing up to 1000Kgs per hour, the crushed material is containerised and shipped to Cimelia's processing facility in Singapore where it will undergo treatment for the extraction of the ferrous, non ferrous and precious metal content. The plastic element of the waste will ultimately be the feed-stock for "Plastics to Fuel" process currently under development by Enviro-Hub Holding's subsidiary "Enviro-Power Pte Ltd.

R&R is keen to provide customers with a seamless and compliant "end to end", "cradle to grave" service without adding additional cost. By partnering with Cimelia, R&R now controls the sourcing, supply and recycling of all IT product and as an "AATF" will also be able to offer this service to Producers. 0% of product crushed by R&R will go to landfill, certification and audit trail will be provided to each customer. The benefit of now having this new resource is that R&R remains in control of the product cycle to and from the customer, this linked to inventory control and procurement allows stronger cost management and benefits to the customer.

Steve Hodges CEO of R&R Group Services said: " as resource management is an essential part of being a competitive service provider , R&R now has all the essential "in house" portfolio of services to manage the complete cycle of IT Parts and Components in total compliance with all current legislation together with responsibility and cost control residing with one provider, a definite benefit to any company operating in the IT Maintenance sector".

Mr Raymond Ng, Executive Chairman of Enviro-Hub said: "This is an exciting development for us. We are excited to be working in partnership with R&R Group and this attests to the strong corporate brand name that Cimelia currently enjoys in the global e-waste management and recycling industry and recognition of our abilities to offer ONE-STOP and Close the Loop electronic waste ("e-waste") management services".

Mr. Ansari, Director of Cimelia Resource Recovery Pte Ltd and the Person-in-charge of the Group's Business Development said: "Together with R&R, we look forward to jointly develop compelling services to all our clients in this Electronic & Semiconductor Industry in Europe. "Significantly, this agreement also serves as a strategic launch pad for our geographic expansion, cementing Enviro-Hub's vision to be a global brand in Total Environmental Management Solutions and Services." Steve Hodges added.

About Cimelia Resource Recovery Pte Ltd

Cimelia was founded by a group of professionals and experts from the e-waste management and recycling industry. The core business includes provision of high quality, cost competitive e-waste management, base metal recycling, Platinum Group Metals refining and environmental consulting and management services to Multinational Corporations around the world. Cimelia operates its recycling facility in Singapore with approximately 200,000 sq. ft and it has a network of operations worldwide. The plant and the facility are recognized as the biggest E-waste recycling and PGM recovery/refining facility in Singapore.

Cimelia Resource Recovery Pte Ltd
No 3 Tuas Avenue 2
Singapore
639443
Tel: (+65) 6898 0808
Fax: (+65) 6898 0888
Email: info@cimeliaglobal.com

www.cimeliaglobal.com

About Enviro-Hub Holdings Ltd

Enviro-Hub Holdings Ltd ("Enviro-Hub" or the "Group") is listed in Singapore Stock Exchange (Main Board) and well known as one of the largest providers of Total Environmental Management Solutions & Services for the Global Electrical & Electronic Equipment industries. The Group provides a whole spectrum of services such as management and recycling of electronic waste ("e-waste"), extracting & refining Platinum Group Metals, melting and refining of copper, recovery and processing of ferrous & non-ferrous metals, recycling of engineering plastics, I.C. Tray management and conversion of waste plastic into liquid hydrocarbon fuel.

Enviro-Hub Holdings Limited
20 Gul Way
Singapore
629196
Tel: (+65) 6863 2100
Fax: (+65) 6861 2100
Email: info@enviro-hub.com

www.enviro-hub.com

R&R DMS opens its "data cleansing " processing facility.

R&R Data Managed Services now boasts a data cleansing facility capable of erasing data on up to 5000 hard drives per week.

All data on working hard drives is wiped to comply with DOD 5220.22 standard and non functioning hard drives are degaussed to CESG standard.

The ability to be able to wipe hard drives in volume is becoming a resource in demand as companies with large data centres resell or redeploy large volumes of storage with confidential data present. Reconfiguration and testing of servers and RAID is also offered as part of the overall service.

Steve Hodges CEO of R&R Data Managed Services commented that, "Clients have an ever increasing requirement for efficient, speedy and volume data erasure ensuring that any potential data leak has been closed, we believe we have the largest data erasure facility in Europe".

R&R Data Managed Services Ltd has been awarded the CCT Mark for its "On Site" Secure Data Destruction service

R&R Data Managed Services Ltd has been awarded the CCT Mark for its "On Site" Secure Data Destruction service for data on magnetic media to comply with the CESG lower level degaussing standard.

The "On Site" Secure Data Destruction service enables compliance with the statutory duty to securely remove classified data from obsolete and surplus IT equipment and media.

The "On Site" Data Destruction service can be part of the quality and security policy of any organisation, enabling proof of compliance with security needs and current legislation.

Media can be safely recycled in an environmentally approved way to comply with statutory disposal requirements.

There is an existing and ever growing requirement for Assured Data Destruction of data held on all types of magnetic media, tape, hard drive, floppy disk, zip and jazz, audio and video tape whilst still within the customers secure environment, R&R's "On Site" Data Destruction service now provides this secure compliant service.

R&R's mobile Data Destruction unit can process data bearing media on the customer site, with representation if required, and the customer will receive a "Certificate of Destruction " listing serial numbers of all items degaussed and also a "Certificate of Recycling" to confirm compliant disposal.

CCT Mark is a Cabinet office Assurance scheme run through CSIA. Information available through www.cabinet-office.gov.uk/csia. The CCT Mark is a government quality mark for information systems products and services which, through accredited independent testing, provides the public sector with confidence in the claims made by Vendors about the functionality of their information security products and services.

BBC Look East visits R&R Data Managed Services to help publicise the risks of Identity Theft

BBC Look East, visited R&R Data Managed Services site at Stotfold to report on the Joint Venture with Bedfordshire Police and Bedfordshire Rural Communities Charity (BRCC) in publicising the risks of Identity Theft from discarded computer equipment.

R&R uses one of the most powerful degaussing units in the World to erase data, irrevocably, from all types of data storage media, hard drive, floppy, tape etc and also offers a unique on site data destruction solution for corporate and institutional users where confidential data is destroyed under supervision with all items recycled in full compliance with current legislation.

The report was aired on Monday 14th August.

Download or read the Bedfordshire Police News Release (pdf - 176kb)

Toshiba Chooses R&R Data Managed Services To Provide Data Recovery Solutions To Customers

Toshiba's Computer Systems Division today announced that it has chosen R&R Data Managed Services to provide its customers with data recovery solutions and services. With 20 years experience of successful data recovery, R&R is able to offer Toshiba clients the best solutions to potentially disastrous data loss scenarios together with services to protect hard drive content vulnerable to human error, viruses, natural disasters and device failure.

"We see R&R as an innovative data management organisation with the flexibility and responsiveness needed to deliver a wide range of services around notebook users' most important asset - their data," said Gary Evans, Head of Services for Toshiba CSD. "Many users don't understand the real value of the data they store on their PC and everyone faces the risk of losing information at any time through malware, component failure or physical damage to their machines. We see more and more of our customers storing critical, valuable and sometimes priceless data, photos, music and video on their notebook PCs, and whilst we stress the importance of backing-up data regularly to avoid data loss, Toshiba, with R&R, can now extend a helping hand to users who suffer potentially disastrous hard drive damage and failure."

"By partnering with Toshiba, we are now able to provide superior data recovery services direct to one of the world's most trusted and reputable notebook manufacturer," said Bill Osborne, Sales & Marketing Director of R&R Data Managed Services. "R&R is leading the competition in terms of recovery success rates and recovery expertise and we will be helping Toshiba to become the only notebook manufacturer to widely offer data recovery services direct to the customer."

R&R Data Managed Services Ltd is pleased to launch its bespoke NUS data recovery service.

With 20 years of data recovery experience at a staggering 93% success rate R&R has the technical resource to provide a unique and unrivalled level of service.
Bill Osborne , Sales & Marketing Director , said " R&R has negotiated a special discounted rate for all members of the NUS, and is pleased to be able to offer a helping hand to students at a time when data recovery could be a career saving solution".

NUS Online

Your chance to help stamp out identity theft in Bedfordshire

Bedfordshire Rural Communities Charity, Bedfordshire Police and R&R Data Managed Services are working together to provide the safe and secure disposal of old hard disk data drives within Bedfordshire.

The pilot initiative, which provides a local, free and confidential service for individuals within the county, as successfully launched in Cranfield on Friday 12th May 2006 - Inspector Neill Waring from Bedfordshire Police said "Feedback from both the public and the University in Cranfield highlights the need for this service. I am convinced that a partnership approach to tackle identity related crime is the best way forward."

Home Office figures estimate that more than 100,000 people are affected by identity theft in the UK each year and research carried out in Bedfordshire alone shows that a staggering 90 percent of disposed of computers contain sensitive data that could be used to steal individual identities. This data is retrievable within 2 to 3 minutes.

Even if you delete your data regularly or have reformatted your hard disk drive to delete all your old files, your information is still retrievable and provides an easy way for criminals to steal your identity.

How will the pilot work?

Bedfordshire Police and BRCC are establishing a network of locations, that will accept computer hard drives for safe disposal.

Data will be destroyed in a confidential, environmentally friendly, safe and secure environment by R & R Data Managed Services Ltd, one of the U.K's leading data destruction companies. Hard drives will be tracked throughout the process with a receipt being issued on collection of the hard drive and certificates being issued to confirm the safe destruction of data.

The scheme has been funded partly from the Regional Government Office for the East of England as part of their drive to reduce crime and identity theft within Bedfordshire.

David Maxwell from Bedfordshire Rural Communities Charity said "we will be reaching out into rural areas with the support of many of our Village Care Schemes, BRCC E-Rural Bus and Mobile Police Stations to provide access to this valuable service and increase awareness of the crime issues raised by identity theft and the fact that it can affect anyone no matter where they live or work."

Inspector Neill Waring from Bedfordshire Police added "Your personal identity is probably your most valuable asset and people don't realise that they are inadvertently throwing away all their personal details. What this project will hopefully do is raise the profile of this crime type and offer a means for the people in Bedfordshire to safely dispose of their old computer hard drives"

Members of the public should check the BRCC web site for details and locations for collection including the mobile police station.

For further information contact:

Inspector Neill Waring Bedfordshire Police Community Safety Dept on 01234 842800 neill.waring@bedfordshire.pnn.police.uk

David Maxwell Bedfordshire Rural Communities Charity on 01767 626466 davidm@bedsrcc.org.uk
www.bedfordshire.police.uk
http://www.identity-theft.org.uk/

R&R Group joint venture with EWS-I to provide "end to end" e-waste management solution.

As distinct from many of our competitors, The EWS-I Group continues to actively invest in a global "front-end" Collection and Pre-Processing network of operations providing further services and value-add for our customers reinforced by the opening of our new UK centre for E-Waste.

A heightened awareness of our customers many and varied environmental and legal obligations, has produced the total solution through EWS EU Ltd for full global compliance with forthcoming and current legislation together with a fully documented end to end audit trail.

The R&R Group has been established in the pan European IT Sector for the last 25 years and has experience, not only in supply chain logistics with many of the worlds OEM's and Maintainers but also most recently in data and e waste management and disposal which together with The EWS-I Group's global recycling services, provides a seamless end to end solution.

EWS-I Group's global services summary - pdf (179kb)
www.ews-i.com

R&R Data Managed Services hits the headlines after winning prestigious NHS contract

R&R Data Managed Services is to provide the NHS with a unique and secure one-stop service in electronic data destruction.

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BBC reveals data security ignorance

BBC News reveals that organisations are failing to remove sensitive data from hard drives prior to their disposal. They have reported that recent studies into this problem uncovered that a disturbingly high percentage of hard drives bought on auction sites still contained sensitive data that could be used with malicious intent.

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R&R DMS wins PC World contract

R&R Data Managed Services has achieved preferred partner status, leaving PC World Business customers safe in the knowledge that the entire equipment and data disposal process is managed to full GCat compliance. The PC World Business publication 'I.T. matters' discusses the important services that R&R Data Managed Services is providing.

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